The neighbour has a closed mind, as he sticks to his father’s maxim that good fences make good neighbours.

“ My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him”. “ Stay where you are until our backs are turned.” Similarly of apple trees, he says, and therefore he addresses the boulders and says, The poet writes of inanimate objects as if they are alive. A suggestion of some mysterious force in nature at work against walls and boundaries is skilfully expressed in such a line as “ Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” or “I could say ‘elves’ to him.” This something seems to include the frost – heave, hunters and elves. The spirit of spring has made the poet slightly mischievous. Hunters pull them down to help their dogs to chase rabbits. In the beginning, the speaker states that, something there is that doesn’t love a wall. The neighbours meet and walk along the two sides of the wall repairing the damage as they move. Spring is the season when the damages caused by winter have to be repaired. The speaker in the poem, the poet himself, and his neighbour, get together every spring to repair the stone wall between their respective properties. The poem, “Mending Wall” is a beautiful poem written by Robert Lee Frost. More than forty colleges and universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have given him honorary degrees.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times.

Frost won more awards than any other contemporary American literary figure. He has earned worldwide respect and fame. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) is one of the most prominent 20th-century American poets.

The mending wall poem